2012 December - 12 articles
In the period 1945-1965 most women in the state of Queensland, Australia, gave birth in hospitals and thereafter they used a variety of services and individuals for advice on infant feeding. The services available were similar throughout the period....
The European Year of Healthy Ageing recognizes that health care systems need to be improved and reorganized if services are to optimize the opportunities for people to stay healthy and well in their own homes for as long as possible. However, current...
This paper describes a malaria knowledge test (MKT) developed to evaluate a web-based game for students who increasingly travel to malaria- risk regions of the world. The 18-item MKT was structured according to the dimensions of the self-regulation...
In the past, the study of old age often focused on the losses and problems associated with ageing. In recent times, the focus has been on the positive aspects, such as quality of life, inner strength, and enjoying life. The aims...
Nurses’ Quality Of Life (QOL) may be affected by many different factors that can in turn influence their job competency. The aim of this study was to assess the QOL of Iranian nurses to provide evidence to enable policy makers to take the necessary s...
Many patients wish to discuss spiritual issues with nurses. Previous work has shown that nurses do so infrequently. A mixed meth- ods research approach was used to investigate the perceptions of spiritual care of nurses and patients. Fifty-one n...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) changes family roles and relationship dynamics and the experience of the disease is influenced by family functioning. Merleau- Ponty’s existential philosophy of the body pro- vided the framework...
The Trent Universities Interprofessional Learning in Practice (TUILIP) project aimed to establish interprofessional learning (IPL) for healthcare students in clinical practice settings. Ten IPL facilitators were employed in eight varied practice sett...
The authors aimed to evaluate the Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project inter-sec- toral collaboration to improve continuity and appropriateness of services for sexually exploited children and adolescents. The study was carried on thro...
Medication errors compromise patient safety and cost £500m per annum in the UK. Patients who forget the name of their medication may describe the appearance to the doctor. Nurses use recognition skills to assist in safe administration of medications....
In collaboration with Age Concern UK, older people were invited to participate in action learning groups to explore how they adapt to change. Themes for discussion were initially identified using a nominal focus method. Discussions identified actual...
While women who informally shared breast- feeding or breastmilk (also called cross-nurs- ing or co-feeding) in the latter part of the twentieth century were often reluctant to dis- close this practice, media attention in the last few years ha...
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